Sharjah and Shabab Al Ahli, the first titles of the season, will be titled when the two teams meet in the Arabian Gulf Super Cup, at 8:30 pm at Al Maktoum Stadium in Al Nasr Club in Dubai, where each team hopes to get a strong moral boost before the start of the Arabian Gulf League. next Thursday.
Winning the Super title will have a special taste for the team that won the title, especially since the fans of the two teams entered a strong competition on social media about the eligibility of each team title «King», as Sharjah was the first to be named this title, as it was the most crowned title The President's Cup, while Al-Ahli fans view that the Dubai Knights took this title and deserved it, after it became the most culminating in the Cup title, so the two teams face in the Super Cup with special accounts and great importance for the fans of each team.
Sharjah seeks to ensure that the team did not achieve the title of the Arabian Gulf League last season, by chance, and contrary to the expectations of many that the «King» will decline in the new season, and will not be a contender for titles, while the Arabian Gulf Super Cup, a suitable opportunity The team to confirm their readiness to maintain the league title.
Sharjah are hoping to win the Super Cup for the first time in their history since the introduction of professionalism in 2008, knowing that the team achieved the title once in 1993, as «King» for the first time the trophy, having achieved its first titles since the application of professionalism to win the title of the Arabian Gulf League last season .
Orient Football is betting on technical stability, as coach Abdulaziz Al-Anbari continues. In addition, the King is the only team that has kept the services of three foreign players, namely Brazilian Igor Kornado, Uzbek Shukurov, and Cape Verde player Ryan Mendes, while signing a player with Cape Verde. Ricardo Gomez, as for the citizens' contracts, included Salim Sultan, Mohammed Abdul Basit, Tariq Al Khadim from Al Wahda, and Mohammed Khalfan from Fujairah.
Sharjah started the season negatively after losing the first two games in the Arabian Gulf Cup to Bani Yas 2-0 and against Al Wahda 3-1, before beating Ajman 5-0.
On the other hand, Al-Ahli youth seek to win the title for the fifth time in its history, and enhance the superiority over Al Ain and Unity with three titles for each team.
Al-Ahli's youth are in the match with high morale, after the strong start in the new season, where they lead the first group in the Arabian Gulf Cup, after a draw with Al Ain, and then beat Al-Jazira 4-0, and 2-0 on Al-Nasr.
Although the nominations gave the Dubai Knights the advantage of winning the Super title after the brilliant start of the team, the youth of Al Ahli will find themselves in front of a preference owned by Sharjah, who won twice last season against Shabab Al Ahli, 2-1 in the first leg of the league, and 2 goals without a reply in The return.
The Dubai Knights are betting on the technical stability as well, the continuation of the Argentine coach Arwabarina, in addition to not making changes in the names of citizens, and the signing of only one player, Youssef Jaber, while making a big change in foreigners, he signed with Swiss Mariani, Argentine Cartabia The Brazilian Leonardo.
Shabab Al Ahli are looking to boost their tally for the fifth title, while Sharjah are hoping to make their name in the Champions League for the first time.